Heat Pipe

Case Study

Install 1-row heat pipe in AHU-15. Heat pipe shall greatly reduce the cooling and heating loads on this
unit.

Price:

$ 50,325
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Summary of 1 year savings
Projected annual electrical savings
Job Cost
Projected Payback/Return on Investment (approx.)

Note:

Base Scope
($ 16,500)
$ 50,325
3 years / 33% ROI

How Heat Pipe works:

a. A hollow cylinder filled with a vaporizable liquid is wrapped around both sides of a cooling
coil in an air handling unit.
b. Heat is absorbed in the evaporating section.
c. Fluid boils to vapor phase.
d. Heat is released from the upper part of cylinder to the environment; vapor condenses to
liquid phase.
e. Liquid returns by gravity to the lower part of cylinder (evaporating section).
Heat pipes may be described as having two sections: precool and reheat. The first section is
located in the incoming air stream. When warm air passes over the heat pipes, the refrigerant
vaporizes, carrying heat to the second section of heat pipes, placed downstream. Because some
heat has been removed from the air before encountering the evaporator coil, the incoming air
stream section is called the precool heat pipe.
Air passing through the evaporator coil is assisted to a lower temperature, resulting in greater
condensate removal. The "overcooled" air is then reheated to a comfortable temperature by the
reheat heat pipe section, using the heat transferred from the precool heat pipe.
This entire process of precool and reheat is accomplished with no additional energy use. The
result is an air conditioning system with the ability to remove 50 to 100% more moisture than
regular systems.
Typically a one-year payback equals 100% return on investment (ROI).
Typically a two year payback equals 50% return on investment (ROI).
Typically a three year payback equals 33% return on investment (ROI).

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